Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Ireland in September 2025

Investor	Media (entertainment) Ireland investments
Ray Nolan	4
Ray Nolan	4
Shane Naughton	3
Shane Naughton	3
Michael Dwyer	2
Tom Kennedy	2
Eamon Leonard	2
Peter O'Grady Walshe	2
Gareth Lambe	2
Nigel Byrne	2
Nigel Byrne	2
Michael Dwyer	2
Gareth Lambe	2
Tom Kennedy	2
Hal Philipp	2
Hal Philipp	2
Eamon Leonard	2
Peter O'Grady Walshe	2
Per Brilioth	1
Lachy Groom	1
Colin Wiel	1
Julien Nguyen	1
Paddy Flynn	1
John Corcoran	1
Armando Biondi	1
Barry Lunn	1
Vishal Aasdhir	1
Scott Chacon	1
Angus McMillian	1
Julien Nguyen	1
Andrej Henkler	1
Matt Biddulph	1
Johnny Walke	1
Charles Williams	1
Sam Perry	1
Dave Burke	1
James Douglas	1
Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb	1
Paul Peters	1
Ryan Morrison	1
Sean Blanchfield	1
Tom Preston-Werner	1
Charles Williams	1
Julian Kulkarni	1
George Kilpatrick	1
Chris Adelsbach	1
Tony Smurfit	1
Niccolo Maisto	1
Michele Attisani	1
Anil Kokaram	1

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

Investment focus

Apps, News, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
REFLEX Gaming —

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

Investment focus

Apps, News, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
REFLEX Gaming —

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling.  Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling.  Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.

Investment focus

Travel, Video, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.

Investment focus

Messaging, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

XMTP — XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

Investment focus

Video, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.

Investment focus

Tourism, Payments, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.

Investment focus

Tourism, Payments, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.

Investment focus

Travel, Video, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Big Data
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Big Data
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.

Investment focus

Messaging, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

XMTP — 2M+ web3 identities trust XMTP for secure & private messaging
Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

Investment focus

Video, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Transportation
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.

Lachy Groom

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.
Weights — Weights is a social AI Creation Platform. Create audio, images, chat, and more for free, and share with your friends!
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

Colin Wiel is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mynd. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

iOS, Communities, Location Based Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quilt — Quilt is a feminine-forward audio social network
Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.

Julien Nguyen has 30 years of operational, entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience.Prior to NanoDimension, Julien was a Managing Director at Applied Materials Ventures and Concept Ventures. Julien led investments in companies such as Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), M-Stream (acq’d by Broadcom), Devicescape, Grandis (acq’d by Samsung),Takumi (acq’d by Sagantec), Envis (acq’d by Magma), with co-investors including August Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien founded or was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), Radius (IPO). He holds 21 patents issued in the US.Julien received his postgraduate degree from Telecom Paris (France) and his Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique (France).

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, Music
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Latvia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
Drivezy — Own the Experience, not the Car
OQmented — Outstanding MEMS-based laser scanning for top-notch 3D environment perception and AR projections. Unmatched in terms of size, performance and reliability.

Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google

Investment focus

SaaS, Machine Learning, Video
Angel, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.

Dublin-based John Corcoran (89) co-founded the hugely successful Paddy Power chain of bookmakers in 1988 along with David Power and Stewart Kenny. At a time when big brands were taking over the market, the three men joined their three independent chains to become a force to be reckoned with. Corcoran remains a shareholder in Paddy Power Betfair,although he has sold off tranches for 'estate planning' purposes in recent years. John died in June 2019.

Investment focus

Video, Publishing, Social Media
Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
Mattermark — Mattermark lets you search for companies & investors to effortlessly create actionable lists for leads. Enrich your company data with customer intelligence from the industry leader of identity resolution.
Cloud Campaign — The only white-label SMM platform built to support rapidly growing agencies. Sign up for a free trial to see how Cloud Campaign can transform your business!

Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.

Investment focus

Sensor, Software, Aerospace
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Arralis — Arralis is a rapidly scaling technology company, providing world leading expertise in RF, micro, and millimetre-wave technology. It excels in Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), packaged component modules, proprietary antenna technology, and integrated Radar and Communications front-end platforms. Its products, which are theultimate in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. its also creates partnerships with other leading technology providers to build bespoke high performance, cutting-edge solutions. Arralis provides added value through advanced, research, and innovation aligning its solutions with its client’s strategic objectives.
Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.

Vishal Aasdhir

Investment focus

SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer currently as the Cofounder & CEO of Chatterbug. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage and the Git Community Book. Source

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Open Source
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.

Angus McMillian

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Big Data
Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.

Julien Nguyen has 30 years of operational, entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience.Prior to NanoDimension, Julien was a Managing Director at Applied Materials Ventures and Concept Ventures. Julien led investments in companies such as Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), M-Stream (acq’d by Broadcom), Devicescape, Grandis (acq’d by Samsung),Takumi (acq’d by Sagantec), Envis (acq’d by Magma), with co-investors including August Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien founded or was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), Radius (IPO). He holds 21 patents issued in the US.Julien received his postgraduate degree from Telecom Paris (France) and his Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique (France).

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, Music
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Latvia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
Drivezy — Own the Experience, not the Car
OQmented — Outstanding MEMS-based laser scanning for top-notch 3D environment perception and AR projections. Unmatched in terms of size, performance and reliability.

Entrepreneurial investments High-Tech, Internet and Media companies in US and Europe.Portfolio companies include among others Palantir Technologies, Taulia, Socotra, Context Logic (Wish), Evernote, CapLinked, Spectrum Investments, Open Door, Zipline, Properly, Simscale, Osaro, Polyspectra, Aether Bio, Ashby, Asyncy, Eligible, WayUp, Xage,Lampenwelt, Robin Hood, Klara, Qualia Labs, Aizon, Luna, Shogun (Hearth), Mosaic Finance, Cantourage, Seed Legals, Sava, Gordian, Form Logic, Vector, Bryte, Gartenhaus, Free Form, Fero Labs, Airly, Octane.ai, SmithRX, Contract Book, Quantum Systems, Energy Robotics, Airly, Memberstack, Orchest.ai, Inflammatix, Finway, Roadsurfer, Hive Logistics, AnyMove, Lucid Chart, Fursure, Arrows.to, Halo Industries, Almanac, Velocity Labs, Lumeo, Carbon Health, Almanac, Passion.io, US Bitcoin Corp, OQmented, Maev, LegalOS, Block Green, trypenny, remberg, Kaladin, Marvel Fusion, Arda Therapeutics, The Every Company, CryptoCities, Lenco, SaveIN, GetSona, Noibu, how.fm, Adyton, Hydra Host, Anchor Zero, Gen1e Lifesciences, Pasteur Labs, Windmill.dev, ISEE, ThreeDOT, Workpatterns, Pylon, Cylib,...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Test and Measurement
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

Matt Biddulph is the Software Engineer at Apple in 2019. He attended University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Audio, Video, Events
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Lanyrd — Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

Johnny Walke

Investment focus

Photo Sharing
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

PicStash — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

Charles Williams is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.

Sam Perry - President @ Ascendance Ventures

Investment focus

Social Media, Apps, News
Funding Round, Convertible Note
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hyperkey — Hyperkey is building the world's first proprietary library of collections based on human visual expressions. Our social network gives users, and branded content creators, the ability to make Gifs and Stickers shared in their chat conversations discoverable to the whole world. With our keyboard - or our iMessage extension - users expresstheir feelings with their friends in chat. These expressions are added to their public collections, and can be discovered by other users and followers instantly on Hyperkey, and then recycled in their own chats.Hyperkey works with all popular communication platforms, including iMessage, What's App, Facebook, Twitter and more.
NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.

Dave Burke

Investment focus

Events, Travel, Ticketing
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Coras — Coras is changing the way tickets are sold online. Our platform lets customers buy tickets for any event or activity, through websites they already use.

James Douglas - Managing Director @ Morgan Healey

Investment focus

Events, Software, Publishing
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.

Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb is the CEO at Arab Foundation for Education and Culture.

Investment focus

Events, Software, Publishing
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.

Paul Harvey Peters is the non-Executive Board Chair of online conference software provider ExOrdo.

Investment focus

Events, Software, Publishing
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.

Ryan Morrison - Co-Founder and CEO @ Evolved

Investment focus

SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

Sean Blanchfield studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Advertising
Convertible Note
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

PageFair — PageFair’s mission is to sustain the open web by re-establishing a fair deal between users and content creators. The company does this by helping website owners and publishers detect and measure adblock, and protecting advertising inventory from being blocked.The company has two products: 1) PageFair Analytics, which is used by thousands ofpublishers for free, and measures adblock on over 11 billion pageviews per month, and 2) PageFair Ads, which serves advertising in a manner that adblockers are unable to circumvent, and solves the speed, privacy, and UX issues that cause adblocking in the first place.PageFair's founders personally experienced the damage adblocking can do to a website. While they recognize that visitors need to defend themselves from distracting, intrusive, inappropriate, disingenuous or malicious advertising, the rise of adblocking is now leading to the death of quality free websites.PageFair is an international startup based in Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2012, the company was initially funded by its founders with additional seed capital from Tribal Ventures, Frontline Ventures, and Enterprise Ireland. Thoudands of publishers now use PageFair to measure the extent to which they are affected by adblocking and to display advertising to adblockers.PageFair is the global authority on adblocking trends, cited in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, Advertising Age, and others.

Tom Preston-Werner - Cofounder @ Preston-Werner Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OpenPipe — Convert expensive LLM prompts into fast, cheap fine-tuned models.
Alinia AI — Alignment Platform for Generative AI. Alinia makes it easy for enterprises to control and guide Gen AI applications based on their policies and preferences.
Not Diamond — Not Diamond is the world's most powerful AI model router.

Charles Williams is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.

Julian Kulkarni

Investment focus

Photo Sharing
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

PicStash — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

I was once photographed by David Bailey! I also bring to work our therapy dog, Woody, for the Fareham team’s good mental health. And Woody’s lunch.

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Collaboration
Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

Investment focus

Video, Privacy, Software
Seed, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Niccolo Maisto is the Co-CEO at ESL FACEIT Group. Niccolo Maisto attended NYU Stern School of Business and Bocconi University.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

Michele Attisani

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Bankaya — Bankaya is the first fintech startup in Mexico built through a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. Bankaya's purpose is to empower everyone with the financial and digital freedom to break through barriers and achieve more.
Hastee — Hastee is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their workforce. It empowers employees to receive their earned pay immediately to increase their choice and financial wellbeing. Companies profit from the improved productivity, engagement, recruitment & retention of their workforce, with zero cost or impact on company cash-flow.Thecompany was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.

Anil Kokaram

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Collaboration
Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.